It will be an absolutely stunning result! As I write there is much counting still to be done but the result is clear – Alliance Leader, Naomi Long will be one of the three Northern Ireland MEPs. Not only is that the best Alliance result – by any parameter – in its 49 year history, it also means that Northern …
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SDLP Leader, Colum Eastwood, has written to the other party leaders and the two governments to urge that talks are convened this week to finally restore devolved government in Northern Ireland. He is right as far as he goes, but he should go much further. Firstly, the parties should not wait for a dithering and incompetent British Government to convene …
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Sermon preached by Professor, the, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych at First Presbyterian Church, Belfast, on the 11th November 2018 Firstly, I would like to thank all of you for the warm welcome you have given me into membership of this congregation of First Presbyterian Church, Belfast at what was a difficult time in my own journey of faith. I am not …
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